As a result of operative-searching and investigative activities, in coordination with the Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti District Prosecutor’s Office, representatives of Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia, detained three persons on the fact of commercial bribery, assistance in commercial bribery and manufacturing and selling forged official documents.

Investigation determined that the accused persons worked as an inspectors of one of the technical inspection center located in the city of Poti and were responsible for conducting motor vehicle tests in accordance with the requirements of the technical regulations.

Investigation determined that accused persons in order to receive personal illegal material benefit, with a person being in a criminal relationship with them, issued reports of positive passing the technical inspection on a technically defective motor vehicles, for which they requested and accepted money from a citizen.

It is determined, that at the technical inspection center, forged reports of positive passing technical inspections were systematically issued for defective vehicles. In connection with this, appropriate investigative activities are being carried out.

Investigation is underway under the third part of the Article 221 and the first part of the Article 362 of the Criminal Code of Georgia, which as a type of sentence, envisage imprisonment from 2 to 4 years.